Grana Padano Scrambled Eggs with Prosciutto di San Daniele Roses

A simple, yet elegant, one pan luxury breakfast recipe that is ready in under 15 minutes – perfect for Christmas morning! In collaboration with Grana Padano & Prosciutto di San Daniele. Edited with new pins, November 2018.

Christmas morning breakfasts in our house tend to be quite small, simple meals. Given that I’m going to be spending most of the day preparing a Christmas dinner feast, I don’t want an elaborate breakfast with a big clean up.

That’s where these one pan Grana Padano scrambled eggs with Prosciutto di San Daniele roses come into their own. The recipe only takes five minutes to cook, and it’s so indulgently creamy and cheesy – and the elegant Prosciutto di San Daniele roses with their vibrant green leaves finish it off perfectly.

Step 6: Scramble the eggs, and serve with the Prosciutto di San Daniele roses and fresh basil leaves for a garnish.

Grana Padano Scrambled Eggs with Prosciutto di San Daniele Roses

Watch our video above to see just how easy it is to make! You might think the method is a bit different than the usual way of making scrambled eggs. My teenage son wants to be a chef when he grows up, and he’s training at our local college and working part-time in a local cafe. He learned how to make scrambled eggs this way from watching the chef at the cafe, and they turn out perfect every time with very little washing up afterwards!

What else could you ask for on Christmas morning, except perhaps a Mimosa or two to wash it down?

ABOUT GRANA PADANO AND PROSCIUTTO DI SAN DANIELE

Grana Padano is a medium fat hard Italian cheese with a rich, but not overpowering, flavour.

Around 1000 years ago, in the Po Valley in Italy, the Cistercian monks built Chiaravalle Abbey and began cultivating crops and rearing livestock. Food preservation techniques were not as advanced then as they are now, and fresh milk quickly went off. In a bid to help preserve surplus milk the monks developed the cheesemaking process that resulted in Grana Padano cheese. This technique preserved the nutritional properties of the milk, and the flavour only improved with maturation.

Prosciutto di San Daniele is produced only in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, in the hilly area around the town of San Daniele in the north-east of Italy. It is made solely of the carefully selected meat of pigs born and bred in Italy and sea salt, dried by the winds blowing down from the Carnic Alps and the breezes coming in from the Adriatic Sea. It is a natural food product with no additives or preservatives of any kind.

Both Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele have Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, meaning that when you buy these products you can guarantee they were produced to the highest standards in their respective regions. Be sure to look out for the PDO mark when making your purchases.

What’s your favourite way to pair Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele? Do you have a Christmas-themed recipe you make that uses both ingredients? Let me know in the comments!

In the meantime, for more information and recipe inspiration for both products (they both have fascinating histories!), visit the Grana Padano and the Prosciutto di San Daniele websites.

Scramble for a few minutes until they look like very wet scrambled eggs. Remove from them from the heat when they're still wet and transfer to a waiting serving plate. They will continue to cook while you prepare the rest of the meal.

Garnish with the Prosciutto di San Daniele roses and a few sprigs of fresh basil leaves. Serve immediately with extra Grana Padano cheese grated over the top, if desired.

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This looks lush! The saltiness of the cheese really sets the scrambled eggs of well! I must admit I had some Parma ham (nearly the same thing) and Parmesan in the fridge so I made these for brunch after reading this! Total food envy!!

I am half Italian and for some reason it has never occurred to me to use an Italian hard cheese in my scrambled eggs. I have used cheddar and mushrooms and when I was living with a housemate from India we made Indian scrambled eggs. I will be trying this recipe over the weekend. Not sure how this will go down with parma ham connoisseurs, but I have been known to grill prosciutto, it takes a second and is quite delicious.

This recipe sounds fab. I’ve made my scrambled eggs with creme fraiche before but not with double cream. If I can find it here in Portugal then I’ll try it out. We love scrambled eggs and often have them with smoked salmon x

Oh this looks delicious ! Something different for us to try this Christmas ,seems simple enough too – especially since the kids should be busy seeing what Santa brought,I should have the time to try this out! Fab

It’s actually the opposite for my mom and myself on Christmas morning. Neither of us typically eat breakfast, so it has sort of become a tradition that we have a nice big breakfast on Christmas morning. Usually consisting of eggs (over easy), toast, sausage, bacon, and potatoes.

I have to say though, this looks absolutely delicious! Over easy eggs are my favorite, but I absolutely love scrambled eggs as well. I also really like prosciutto and never even thought of combining the two. Thanks for sharing this! I’m going to bookmark this so I can try it sometime.

The right Prosciutto is a game changer. I wish I could get these prosciutto here but maybe they will start to import these to Goa sooner or later. They just started to sell other cold cuts, so who knows if I am going to get lucky before Christmas! =D If I do I am making this for breakfast.

Such a lovely idea for a Christmas morning breakfast. With delicious ingredients, yet easy to make and fuss free. The Prosciutto di San Daniele pairs so well with the scrambled eggs. Satisfying enough to keep you going all day until the Christmas feast.

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